Tom Rachman Quotes

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

I love journalism.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.